Table 1 Definitions of immigrants’ integration
Definition of Integration | Author(s) |
|---|---|
“Processes of interaction, personal and social change among individuals and institutions across structural, social, cultural and civic spheres and in relation to identity; processes which are multi-directional and have spatial, transnational and temporal dimensions” | Spencer and Charsley (2021: 16) |
“Integration refers to the process of settlement of newcomers in a given society, to the interaction of these newcomers with the host society, and to the social change that follows immigration” | Penninx (2019: 5) |
“The processes that take place after an immigrant has moved to a new country… a two-way process, requiring accommodation by both the native and the immigrant populations” | Givens (2007: 72) |
“The process of becoming an accepted part of society” | Penninx and Garcés-Mascareñas (2016: 14) |
“A generations lasting process of inclusion and acceptance of migrants in the core institutions, relations and statuses of the receiving society” | Heckmann (2006: 18) |
“The inclusion of new populations into existing social structures of the immigration country” | Heckmann and Schnapper's (2003: 10) |